Detachable running-board for motor-vehicles.



H.E. GOFFIN.

DETAGHAB LE RUNNING BOARD FOR MOTOR VEHICLES. APPUOATION FILED APB.14,1906.

wafavassw M 092 601 PATENTED MAR. 5, 1907.

UNITED sTA ns PATENT oFFioE.

HOWARD E. OOFFIN, OF LANSING, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO OLDS MOTOR WORKS, OF LANSING, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

DETACHABLE RUNNING-BOARD FOR MOTOR-VEHICLES- No. 846,091. Specification of Letters .Patent. Patented March 5, 1907.

Application filed April 14, 1906. Serial No. 311,700.

To coil whom it In/(Ly concern: I cured to the horizontal portions to of the Be it known that I, HOWARD E. OOFFIN, a i hangers. When thus once assembled, the citizen of the United States of America, reboard may be quickly removed at any time siding at Lansing, in the county of Ingham by disengaging the nuts E from the threaded and State of Michigan, have invented. cerportions of the shanks and permitting the tain new and useful Improvements in Deboard and hangers to drop downward. In tachable Running-Boards for MotorVehireplacing the boards the tapering portions 0 cles, of which the following is a specification, of the shanks may be easily entered in the reference being had therein to the accom sockets D, and by then tightening the nuts panying drawings. E the shanks are drawn firmly to their seats.

It is the object of the invention to provide What I claim as my invention is a construction of running-board for motor- 1. The combination with a vehicle-frame, vehicles which is firmly attached to the chasof a running-board provided with a plurality sis and at the same time is capable of being of hangers secured thereto, and sockets on quickly removed. said frame with which said hangers have a The invention consists in the construction detachable engagement. as hereinafter set forth. 2. The combination with a frame, of a run- In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective ning-board having a plurality of hangers atview of a portion of the vehicle-frame and tached thereto, the shanks of said hangers running-board, illustrating the detachable terminating in vertically-extending portions, connection between the two; and Fig. 2 is and socket members secured to the frame for a vertical section through the detachable engaging saidvertically-extendingportions of hanger and its securingesocket. the shanks.

A is the side sill of the vehicle-frame, which, 3. The combination with a frame, of a runas illustrated, is formed of a channel-bar, and l ning-board and a detachable connection be- B is the running-board. This board is detween said running-board and frame compristachably secured to the frame by a plurality ing a hanger having a horizontal portion se of hangers O, each of which comprises a horicured to the running-board, and shank havzontally-extending portion a, secured to the ing a vertically-extending tapered portion under face of the board B, and a shank b, terminating in a threaded end, a socket sepreferably inclined upward and having a vercured to the frame correspondingly tapered tically-extending tapering portion 0 and a to receive said shank, and a nut for engaging threaded portion d. the threaded portion of the shank and clamp- D is a socket member secured to the frame I ing the same in said socket.

A. This member is provided with a taper- 4. The combination with a frame and runing socket e for receiving the tapering portion ning-board, of a detachable connection for c of the shank, and is further provided with said running-board, comprising the hangers the flanges f, apertured at g, for bolting or riveting to the channel A. An angle-flange h is also preferably provided for extending beneath the lower flange of the channel member A and is bolted or riveted thereto.

E is a nut for engaging the threaded portion d of the shank, and F is a pin or other nut-locking device.

With the construction described the socket members D are positioned. and attached to the frame A and the hangers O engage a clamp therein, after which the runningboard B may be screwed or otherwise sepered portion 0, and the threaded portion d, the socket member D secured to the frame having the tapered socket e, and a clampingnut for engaging the threaded portion of the shank above said socket.

In testimony whereof I a'fIiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HOWARD E. OOFFIN.

Witnesses:

CHAS. D. HASTINGS, CHAS. P. MILLER.

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